Buhari may have allowed last rounds of killings in Benue before he leaves office – Group

Benue News today, Thursday, March 31, 2022

A group, under the aegis of Movement for Good Governance and Democracy, has frowned at the latest attacks in Benue, which left many people dead.

IDOMA VOICE recalls that latest herdsmen attacks left many people dead in Guma, Kwande and Gwer West local government areas of the state on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022.

A report from the team leader of security agencies in Kasekyo near Tse Torkula village in Guma local government said that suspected Fulani herders at about 0930 hours on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 shot one Turner Ajar and an unidentified elderly man who were on a motorcycle going to the farm.

Reacting, the group said President Muhammadu Buhari may have allowed last rounds of attacks in Benue before he leaves office in 2023.

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President of the group, Bernard Osakwe, in a statement called on President Buhari to fast and save Benue and Nigeria from the daily flow of human blood in the country.

The statement reads below:

“We are deeply concerned as most Nigerians are over the total collapse of security of life and property in the country. No day passes without reports of attacks on Nigerians across the country by Fulani herdsmen, bandits and Boko Haram resulting to scores of death.

“Very sadly, President Muhammadu Buhari has made for himself a template of condolence message, which he releases anytime deaths by terrorists are reported without any action to stop the recurrence.

“It is practical without mincing words that Nigeria’s Commander-In-Chief has become Consoler-In-Chief. He consoles more and commands nothing.

“Since 2015, attacks on Benue people by Fulani herdsmen had not stopped. Benue’s Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law, 2017 to regulate animal husbandry in the state has rather received opposition from some Northern leaders including President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Even as the country has embraced ranching, President Muhammadu Buhari sees the reopening of grazing routes as the most viable option for ranching. He defends that the culture of the Fulani can not be ended with ranching.

“His insistence on cattle routes reopening suggests he supports the attacks carried out by Fulani herdsmen.

“President Buhari will leave office in 2023 and Fulani herdsmen are carrying out more vicious attacks on Benue people with his suggestive silence of go-ahead. They are emboldened and ruthless and the commander is silent.

“It is an open secret that President Buhari hates Governor Samuel Ortom for his stands with the ranching truth. However, the President should not allow his personal grudge against Ortom to affect the people he swore to defend and protect.

“We do not see Governor Samuel Ortom as the problem but the President. He must rise now to protect Benue and Nigeria from needless attacks and make the country safe again.

“If Benue people are brutally being attacked by Buhari’s kinsmen since 2015 to date and with the current wave of attacks on Benue without measures to put an end to them, we may conclude that Buhari has allowed the last rounds of attacks on Benue people before he leaves office in 2023.

“Notwithstanding, we demand the President act fast and save Benue and Nigeria from the daily flow of human blood in the country. He should start commanding and not consoling.”